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...wandered into the first hoping to find a sleeper, and was instead treated to a Marlboro commercial cum contemporary sex and violence. Ostensibly, the film is a realistic account of a north-from-Texas cattle drive, as seen through the eyes of a novice cattleman (none other than the Summer of '42 boy, Gary Grimes). But I can't trust it past the costumes and they too look a bit anxiously picturesque...
Assuming McGovern's nomination, McGovern aides aimed to deploy an army of 100,000 young volunteers on July 20 to start registering. This effort, Dutton believes, "is the real sleeper" in the presidential politics of 1972. This is the first year, he notes, that a Supreme Court ruling is in effect allowing registration until within 30 days of Election Day; in past years it had to be done much earlier and it was difficult to generate political interest six months or more before an election. By Dutton's hopeful forecast, McGovern would get 13 million...
Harvard's tennis team, undaunted by its coach's prediction of a tough match against a real sleeper team, beat Yale for the fifth straight time Tuesday in its final dual match of the season...
...Yale is a real sleeper team." Barnaby said last night. "I seriously anticipate a tough match. They have a real bunch of fighters down there, and all I can say is that we damn-well better be ready...
...Jewishness becomes stronger," comments James Sleeper in The New Jews, "when you realize that your people have known what it is to live as pariahs in the universe, with the shadow of total annihilation a constant reality. In such moments of awareness, a lesson of Jewish survival is 'hope against hope.' Hope when it makes no sense. Hope when you have known the seamy, brutal underside of a church that stirs the hearts of millions [Christianity], or when you have begun to understand the claim of a Jew dying in the Warsaw ghetto that he would be the oppressed rather...